At 08:45 PM 6/3/98 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
>Eve L. Maler writes:
>
> > This is something the XML WG has taken up from time to time (but not
solved
> > definitively, at least not yet). WF processing is a subset of V
> > processing, but there's no requirement that WF processors do *only* WF --
> > there's a continuum, which makes it hard to rely on consistent behaviors
> > from parsers. It would be better if we said: "If you implement any
> > validation behavior, you must implement all of it."
>
>Does that mean that non-validating parsers would be forbidden from
>expanding external text entities, or from reading the external DTD
>subset?
I would say yes. (Murata Makoto is the person who has advocated this most
strongly; I don't know if he reads this list.) That way, the behavior is
at least predictable.
Eve